The sixth session of the fifth Jiuyuan Municipal People's Congress and the fifth session of the fifth Jiuyuan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened on Jan 13 and Jan 12, respectively.
A freight route linking northwestern China with Europe began operating carrying hundreds of metric tons of agricultural seeds from Gansu province on Dec 24.
Jiuquan is famous at home and abroad for its Dunhuang culture, frontier culture and space technology and was selected as "The Most Popular Well-Known Western City".
